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Comment Nobody else would be allowed (Score 2) 137

If anyone else had their entire fleet of vehicles stalled out and blocking traffic for hours in the middle of the city they would be given hefty fines for obstructing traffic and told to take their cars elsewhere.

But not Waymo, who for some reason are exempt from the rules that everyone else is expected to follow.

Comment Makes sense (Score 1) 16

If AI makes a programmer appear more productive instead of slower, it's means they're slapping code together with great haste producing a ton of bugs, and they're going to need more engineers to fix those bugs, thus increasing headcount and showing how AI improves productivity and saves mon- HEY WAIT A MINUTE

Comment Re:And? (Score 2) 56

The US and NATO have not been trying to beat Russia for nearly four years now.

They give Ukraine just enough to keep going but never enough to actually win because they don't want to see what would happen if Russia actually was on the way to being beaten.

This is what having nuclear weapons does for you, and why dictators like Kim will never give them up. Nuclear weapons are the ultimate guarantor of your state and/or dictatorship continuing to exist.

It's also why Ukraine was foolish to return their nuclear arsenal to Russia after the breakup of the USSR. Had they kept them, this entire situation would not exist.

Comment Re:iRobot couldn't afford to operate. (Score 0) 74

This, the WSJ is transparent about its bias at least, especially now that it's owned by Jeff Bezos. But between being a financially unstable company to start with, selling a stale product that had filled its niche, getting slapped with massive tariffs by Trump, the WSJ chose to blame the trustbuster who attacked the boss' company, which is letting political axe-grinding turn into bad journalism.

Comment Re:Don't Buy Apple Gift Cards (Score 1) 62

So you would be prepared to fly to Tasmania and take the donkey caravan to the remote village where their office is located to deal with this matter?

No?

What about if the shoe is on the other foot... what should the chap who lives in that remote village do if he needs assistance from a physical office in New York City?

Comment Re:Great! (Score 2) 33

That actually happened to me.

My business (and me personally) have never had a Facebook account.

Imagine my surprise about ten years ago when I discovered a Facebook account for my business that had apparently been automatically created by them. I looked into this a bit and discovered that if enough people say they are at your business (somehow, they note their presence through their own Facebook account?) then Facebook creates an account for your business automatically.

I just ignore this thing that they created on their own. I don't have a Facebook account and my business doesn't either.

Comment TikTok divestiture law doesn't allow extensions (Score 3, Interesting) 21

The TikTok divestiture law, officially known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, mandates that ByteDance must divest its ownership of TikTok by January 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban.

The law contains no provision for extending or changing that deadline.

Trump has no authority to extend or change the deadline since that date was written directly into the law.

Note that the date is almost a year ago now....

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